Mother’s health needs protecting, too

May 23, 2023

Are women valued by the Republican and evangelical religious anti-abortionists? The religious right and many Republicans seem to believe that life of the fetus begins at conception and should be preserved without any or very few exceptions. On the other hand, the mother is a secondary consideration. The pain a woman is subject to is often seen as irrelevant. There is also the biblical argument of thou shall not kill, but this seems to only involve pregnant women, not males and others involved in war, occupation that can legally use lethal force and our justice system. Clearly the use ...

The Tab Man sets a goal of 2 million for Ronald McDonald House

May 18, 2023

Let’s kick it in gear and start tabbing. We want to go for 2 million. We need to get more people involved — family, friends, relatives and businesses. Remember, I’m the gopher. You have to feed me. You drop the tabs off I have to gopher them. Please make sure the tabs you drop off are aluminum. Those large ones off of soup or stews cans, etc. are metal. Tidbit — Matt, son of Karen and Jeff Forbes of Florence, Wis,. had kidney surgery at Children’s Hospital. The family was very thankful for Ronald McDonald House and the hospitality they received. Since its origin, 52,000 ...

Educators need to have support from community

May 13, 2023

Delta Kappa Gamma Society is an international group of women educators that promote excellence in education. Each year the society addresses issues of relevance to all educators as the function of its U.S. forum. They select what they believe to be the most critical issue of the time. They set about developing plans with the society to take appropriate actions to make the issue known and resolve its negative impact. The current concern is the mental health of teachers as a result of a multitude of stressors they face. Teachers’ unions, insurance companies and others collected data ...

Payout proof Fox was guilty

May 3, 2023

EDITOR: Sorry for all the Fox News watchers, but the company didn’t pay out over three-quarters of a billion dollars to an approximately $60 million company if they were not guilty of lies causing defamation. If you think Mr. Murdoch would rubber stamp that type of payout if Fox was not guilty I’ve got the Mac Bridge I can sell you at a good price. Skewing stories is done by all the major news networks. But, it is night and day between having a liberal or conservative slant to a story compared to telling outright lies. Especially when those same lies caused radical reactions ...

Choosing to be happy in life

April 28, 2023

I don’t know if I have even mentioned this, but in the military, during a war in which I was a combatant, I was injured numerous times. The U.S. Air Force thought I was trying to avoid going into combat, even though I had already done that more than once, and so they refused me medical treatment. It took two years and a U.S. senator to get me into an Air Force hospital, where I stayed four months and had a couple surgeries. I guess I was not “faking” after all. When I got out, the scars from those surgeries meant I could not be employed in America in any job that had insurance ...

The results of playing up fears

April 27, 2023

Is this a country dominated by fear? To me, fear results in responses such as isolation, suspicion, irrationality, violence, discrimination, panic and extremism. This appears to be the state of the country today. We saw it recently in a young person shot twice for ringing a doorbell at the wrong house, a young women shot for turning into a wrong driveway, and several innocent people of color killed by police and civilians. Fear has made this country the most dangerous and violent country in the western world. Our answer has been more guns, less regulation and, in some places, no ...